St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-08-13
who do nothing but carry off anything
they can get their hands on.
AMONG THE VICTIMS.
ChatsWorth Turned Into Morgue
and Hospital.

CHATSWoRTH, ILL.,, Aug. 12.-Nery
few people in ChatswOrth closed their
eyes last night, and lights which shone
through the windows of nearly every
house in the place told its own story OF
the faithful ministratiOnS of the vii
layers to the injured and dying. Scores
of residents and strangers stood on the
street corners and on the depot plat
form and talked over the terrible event
of the past twenty-fOur hours with
bated breath. At the depot a couple OF
men were busy incloSing the remains OF
the recognized dead in rude pine boxes,
and the noise of hammers beat upon
ears and mingled with the groanS OF the
wounded who were being cared for Ill
the little town hall only a few feet
across the track. This is tWO-StOry
frame building, the lower floor being
used as quarters for the local fire COM
pany, while in the upper hall enter
tainmentS are given. Beds and cots
were brought in from nelghbOrIng
houses, together with the necessary bed
ding, and the sufferers cared for by low
ing hands. The floors of the hall
greatly reSembled the drill room of the
Desplains street police station in Chi
cagO on the night of the Haymarket
riot.
TORN AND BLEEDING HUMAN BEINGS.
in all the different stages of suffering,
lay around the rooms, moaning and cry
ing with agony and pain, while doctors
and nurses were binding up their
wounds. Bloody clothing torn and COW
cred with mud lay around on the floor
in heaps, together with the car-cuShl0nS,
mattresses and blankets on which they
= 4l,sAc of hn
wreck. Many patients were under the
influence of ether or chlorOfOrm, while
their faces ghaStly white, with teeth
tightly clinched, showed the sufferings
which they were undergoing while
partially obliviOus to the fact. Blood
was eVeryWhere-On the walls, floors,
clothing and hands of the wounded, as
well as of those who were caring for
them. Resting on comfortable beds,
watched by tender-hearted men and
women. the majority of whom had never
seen the patients until yesterday, they
slept obliviouS to the slaughter which
had taken place. Coal oil lamps were
placed around the halls, their light care
fully shaded and the scene was strongly
suggestive of the interior of hospital
on the field of battle.
IN THE TOWN HALL,
as to melt the StOuteSt heart. On nearly
two score mattresses, some resting on
chairs and others on the floor, were men,
women and children in various degrees
of suffering and torture. On one cot,
side by side, with their arms resting
across each other, were Robert thinner
man and his wife, of Peoria. The suf-
feringS of both were eXcruciating, and
Mr.. Zimmerman faithful brother, who
had hurried to the scene to do the best
he could to relieve their agony, was
forced every few minutes to seek the
open air to relieve his own pent-up emo
ton. Near by was little five-year-old
Josie Blanding, of Harker'S Corners,
near Peoria. who was brought here in
carriage by her father from Piper City
at 4 o'clock this morning. She was Suf-
fering from internal injuries, as well as
contuSiOnS of the lower limbs. but never
aWhimper came from her lips, and she
smiled sweetly when the nurse whiS-
pered her words of encouragement.
9'She's the brick of 'em all" said the
doctor. Upon the platform, where the
local SolOnS were wont to hold forth,
PRETTY LILLE VALDEJo,
of Peoria. lay in what DR.. Ballard, who
bent over her for hours, thought were
her last agOnieS. She was perfectly
conscious. dllt, DSlNccil IlcI SdSpS 1Ol
breath, told how she had travelled all
over Europe in safety, only to come face
to face with death a few miles from her
home. Her mother lay dead across the
street, but despite her earnest pleadings
for news, no one had the heart to tell
her the dreadful truth. In one corner
of the lower hall lay John c. Steen,
resident of Jersey City, large and pow
erful man. Both of his legs were
broken and he had received such inter-
nal injuries as rendered his recovery
doubtful. Adam SchOebuger, of Peoria,
lay near him, Semi-cOnSciOuS and slowly
breathing his life away. One of his legs
was broken and he was fatally injured
internally. On the upper floor hand
some woman about twenty-five years of
age. stylishly dressed, lay extended on
a couch. She was Miss Hattie Bremen,
of Pennington, ILL.,, and was on her way
to Niagara Falls with several of her rel
atives. In the party was young man
named Walters, also of Pennington, and
to whom she was engaged to be married.
He had been badly injured, and lay
near her on a bed attended by a couple
of surgeons. While Miss Brenner was